THE IDLER

IN

ITALY.

VOL. II.

IN

ITALY.

123

BY THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1839.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

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FLORENCE.-The Medici-Associations-Architecture-Piazza del
Gran Duca-Palazzo Vecchio-Gualdrada-Her Story-Giovanni
Buondelmonte-Climate of England and Italy contrasted-Villas-
The Cascine-Gallery-Venus de' Medici-Titian's Venus-Danc-
ing Faun-Niobe and her Daughters-Wrestlers-Apollino-The
Arrotino-Heroes of Antiquity-Mercury of John of Bologna-Ra-
phael-Titian-Michael Angelo-Endymion of Guercino-Parme-
giano-Correggio-Benvenuto Cellini-Gabinetto Fisico-Cosway
—His Paradoxes-Laurentian Library-Church of Santa Croce-
Boccaccio - Cathedral Church of

Fæsole-Milton- Galileo

Santa Maria Novella-Friendship between Boccaccio and Petrarch

-Palazzo Pitti-Luther-Salvator Rosa-Vandyke-Bronzino

Canova's Venus-Associations of the Pitti Palace-Cosimo, First

Duke of Medici-Eleonore de Toledo-Duke of Ferrara-Cardinal

John-Don Garcia-Countess of Albany-James Stuart-Alfieri—

Similarity between him and Byron-Capelli dei Depositi-Sacrista

Nuova-Bartolini's Studio-Love of the English for Portraits and

Pages 1-37

SIENA. — Cathedral-Pope Joan-Chiaji Chapel - Earthquakes of
37-43
1797-Popes Gregory VII. and Alexander III..

RADICOFANI.-Buon Convento, scene of the Poisoning of the Emperor

Henry VII. by a Friar, at the Sacrament-Lake Bolseno-Brigand

Cavern-Orvieto-Montefiascone-Viterbo-Funeral .... 43-45

Busts

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